SCOTT WAITES became the BDO world champion last night in one of the quickest finals in recent years, and then revealed that he has no plans yet to turn professional.

The 35-year-old from Halifax hammered Tony O’Shea 7-1 in 74 minutes to become the 22nd person to have his name inscribed on the Lakeside trophy. Equally important, this triumph meant he received a winner’s cheque of £100,000.

The No3 seed, the third Yorkshireman to win at Frimley Green following Dennis Priestley in 1991 and John Walton in 2001, produced an outstanding display against the Silverback from Stockport. Yet come this morning, once the hangover has cleared, he will return to his carpentry work.

I will celebrate this win with a party but I’m back to work at 8am tomorrow. I’m not planning to give up my day job.

Scott Waites

Waites said: “I will celebrate this win with a party but I’m back to work at 8am tomorrow. I’m not planning to give up my day job.

“It’s quite funny because I will probably be working on my own in a house rather than with my workmates this week. I had no nerves out there. I woke up and, while I couldn’t believe that I was in the final in the first place, I was really calm.”

Waites, who arrived at this final having dropped only four out of 22 sets, won the first five sets in a row. Ruthless on the doubles while O’Shea was disastrously missing his, ‘Scotty to Hotty’ raised the temperature and quietened the crowd by winning a remarkable nine legs in a row – including 15 out of 19 legs – after the fifth set.

Although O’Shea managed to clinch the sixth set in a rare moment of satisfaction for the 51-year-old, who also recording an excellent 158 checkout in the eighth set, these were just footnotes. Waites ended the match with a superb 110 finish.

O’Shea, a loser three times in this final, said: “I’m gutted that I didn’t give him a game. I’m coming back next year. Whether I lose four or even fives times, I don’t care. I will keep trying.”